The Talent Lab - The secret to finding, creating and sustaining success - E-book - ePub

Owen Slot is the Chief Rugby Correspondent for The Times. He has covered six summer Olympics and three winter Olympics. He has three times won Sports Reporter of the Year and three times won Sports Feature Writer of the Year. He has written five books: two romantic comedies, two children's novels, and was ghost-writer of Jonny, the autobiography of Jonny Wilkinson. Simon Timson led the successful development and delivery of Team GB's performance strategy throughout the Rio cycle, as Director of Performance at UK Sport.
He has since become Performance Director for the LTA / British Tennis. Previously, Simon was Head of the England Cricket Development Programme when England became the No1 ranked nation, and Performance Director of British Skeleton, leading two medal-winning Olympic campaigns. Chelsea Warr is the Director of Performance at UK Sport. She pioneered Team GB's talent identification and development programme, that discovered Olympic champions like Helen Glover, Tom Daley and Lizzy Yarnold.
She joined UK Sport in 2005, before which she was a physiologist with the Australian Institute of Sport and then Talent ID manager for British Swimming.